The Importance of Being Orwell

July 9, 2012

Vanity Fair | August 2012
By Christopher Hitchens


George Orwell’s best-known work (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) emerged from painstaking investigation. In the introduction to a groundbreaking volume of Orwell’s diaries, V.F.’s late columnist dissects one of the 20th century’s greatest political minds, a writer who was also his lifelong inspiration. 


http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/08/christopher-hitchens-george-orwell

 
 
 

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